Letter: Keeping things in proportion

Correspondent • Published 18 Feb 2010 08:00 0 Comments

I NOTE the comments of Rob Wilson on Gordon Brown's starkly political attempt to woo voters by dangling the proportional representation referendum carrot under their noses. (Chronicle, 'Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary', Feb 4)

It is sad, but not surprising, that Rob Wilson puts his faith in the first past the post system while comparing Gordon Brown's offer to a "Mugabe-style Zanu Labour moment".

I don't expect a Conservative (or Labourite) to recognise the words fairness and justice, but with just a little thought you may be able to work out that under a PR system with the voters properly represented, Mr Blair would not have got away with taking our country to war in Iraq based solely on his and his cronies' lies.

But never underestimate his political ability to get his own way. Despite being very largely responsible for the depth of the economic crisis in the UK, Brown is still within touching distance of forming a minority administration in a hung parliament.

If this happens it will be because of the Conservatives' lack of decent policies and the fact that many people don't vote because the three main parties are 'all the same'.

If a major party was to do as the Common Sense Party does and base its policies on what the public want, instead of telling us what we should want, then that party would form the next government.

Why is that principle so hard for the major parties to understand, I wonder? The words remote and ivory towers spring to mind!

Howard Thomas, Common Sense Party, Cardiff Road, Reading

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